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rainforest action network

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campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants

and the natural systems that sustain life

by transforming the global marketplace

through education, grassroots organizing

and non-violent direct action.

This is the Year

by Rebecca Tarbotton, Executive Director

Tropical Forest Program

Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign

Rainforest-Free Paper Campaign

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Coal Finance Campaign

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For the future,

Rebecca tarbotton

Executive director

I’ve spent the last year thinking a lot about winning and

losing, and what it looks like for the movement that we are

all a part of.

this year, as I am so proud to write, RAN secured one of

the farthest-reaching rainforest paper commitments in

history, a landmark policy that covers all of disney’s global

operations.

As a result of RAN’s campaign, supported by all of you,

disney is changing everything about the way it sources

and uses paper throughout its global empire, including all

of its subsidiaries, ABC, ESPN, marvel Comics and more;

all of its 3,700 licensees around the world; and all of its

theme parks, book publishing and cruise ships. disney and

its enormous paper supply chain, which includes 25,000

factories around the world, will no longer contribute to

the deforestation of endangered rainforests and will focus

on reducing its consumption while maximizing recycled

content. A tremendous victory for rainforests!

RAN also worked to ensure that disney and its licensees will

stop sourcing any paper fiber from places where there is

social conflict and from rainforests that have high value for

the climate—like those in Indonesia where deforestation

has made the country the third largest greenhouse gas

emitter just behind China and the united States.

this says a lot about RAN. A lot about what we value,

what we care about and what we consider to be non-

negotiable.

this year, in addition to securing a significant victory with

our disney campaign, we also set our sights on the next

five years of RAN’s future. We recommitted to RAN’s core

purpose of protecting forests, moving the country off

of fossil fuels and defending human rights. We also set

the course for advancing our model of effective, nimble,

innovative and hard-hitting environmental corporate

campaigning, while expanding the reach of our critical

network.

We firmly believe that the health of our forests (and our

communities) depends on the health of our climate, and so

too the health of our climate depends on the health of our

forests. this understanding of the interconnected nature

of our forests and our climate, this ecosystem approach,

underpins all of RAN’s current work.

So, it’s been a big year.

But we can’t forget that this was also the year that Iowa

farmers lost their crops to extreme drought. And tri-State

Area residents lost their homes to hurricane Sandy. the

year that we discovered that greenland is shedding five

times as much ice as it was 20 years ago.

For many of us, climate change has hit home like never

before. It’s time to admit that we did not stop human-

induced climate change before it started. We have lost

that fight.

But we are far from losing. When it comes to our country’s

energy choices, we are in the midst of what history will

undoubtedly call the next industrial revolution. And the

evidence that it’s happening is all around us if we care

to look. this was also the year that 124 coal plants were

shuttered. the year Iowa produced 20 percent of its

electricity from renewable energy.

We are in the midst of transforming almost everything

about the way we live on this planet, from how we power

our homes and offices to the way goods are produced.

here at RAN, we believe this means re-embedding our

economy within the limits of nature.

this kind of transformational change takes all of us. It takes

everything from science all the way to faith. And it is that

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fertile place right in the middle where really exceptional

campaigning happens. that’s where RAN strives to be all

the time.

holding both this year’s great losses and our enormous

wins is a profound part of our responsibility as change

agents. As martin luther King said, “the arc of the universe

is long and it bends toward justice.” Sometimes I don’t think

we can see it bend. Sometimes it feels like its flattening

out. And then there are other times, like this year with RAN’s

disney campaign, when we can see it perceptibly bending

toward justice, toward balance.

thank you for being a part of Rainforest Action Network.

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Each year, the world’s natural forests absorb 30 percent of all the carbon that we release into the atmosphere from

burning fossil fuels. In this way, healthy forests absorb and store vast quantities of carbon, helping to regulate temperature

and generate rain. the “lungs of the planet” in action.

the relationship between the health of our rainforests and the health of our climate (and ultimately the health of our

communities) is a particularly important synergy.

horrifyingly, we are currently witnessing a devastating one-two punch to the climate and our forests. As fossil fuel

emissions continue to climb, the changing climate makes standing forests more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts

and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further

impacting the climate.

Nowhere is this intersection between deforestation and climate change clearer than in Indonesia. As a result of rapid

deforestation and the draining of carbon rich peatlands, non-industrialized Indonesia is currently the third largest

greenhouse gas emitter, behind only China and the united States. Indonesia is home to some of the most ancient

rainforest ecosystems in the world, and over many millennia these steamy tropical forests have been pulling carbon out of

the atmosphere and storing it in vast, water covered peat domes. When peatland forests are drained and cleared these

carbon reservoirs are released back into the atmosphere in tremendous quantities.

In addition to Indonesia’s central importance to stemming global climate change, the country’s rainforests are also home

to some of the highest levels of biological diversity in the world and to millions of forest-dependent peoples.

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Since 2009, RAN’s tropical Forest Program has worked to

address this crisis of deforestation, carbon pollution and

human rights abuses by focusing on the two main drivers

of deforestation in Indonesia: the expansion of palm oil

plantations and logging by the pulp and paper industry.

RAN is campaigning to eliminate market demand for these

commodities (when linked to Indonesian forest loss, social

conflict and greenhouse gas emissions), and to leverage

supply chain pressure that can force industry-wide reforms.

this year, we’ve seen the impacts of RAN’s tropical Forest

Program in action. our campaigns work to change the

behavior of corporations within the agribusiness and

pulp and paper sectors by motivating shifts in purchasing

practices among their biggest and most strategic

customer companies.

If RAN’s tropical Forest Program is successful, the coming

years will see millions of hectares of Indonesia’s rainforests

and peatlands protected, hundreds of millions of tons of

greenhouse gas emissions reduced, and the strengthening

of human rights protections and safeguards.

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With just 1 percent of the earth’s land area,

Indonesia’s rainforests contain 10 percent of the

world’s known plant species, 12 percent of all

mammal species—including critically endangered

orangutans and Sumatran tigers and rhinos—and 17

percent of all known bird species.

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this summer, RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team traveled

to the tanjung Puting National Park in Borneo, a globally

recognized biosphere reserve, which is feeling pressure

from the palm oil plantations adjacent to it. While traveling

by houseboat along the National Park, RAN’s team saw

incredible wildlife: macaw monkeys, Proboscis monkeys,

gibbons, crocodiles and water snakes.

however, the most powerful sitings were on the other

side of the river, the plantation side. mother and baby

orangutans perched in nests the size of very large salad

bowls. Nests that are in a tiny strip of remaining rainforest

that is getting smaller every day as palm oil plantations

expand.

Palm oil is now the world’s leading source of vegetable

oil, and Indonesia is the world’s leading producer.

Already, palm oil can be found in close to 50 percent of

all processed goods in North American supermarkets.

one of the most horrifying consequences of this surge in

consumption is that orangutan populations like those in

Borneo are being pushed to the brink of extinction as palm

plantations encroach upon their forest habitat.

RAN’s job is to make sure oil palm plantations do not come

at the cost of rainforests and peat lands, the rights of local

communities or the climate. the campaign pushes large

u.S. corporations, major drivers of palm oil demand and

expansion, to implement safeguards that protect natural

rainforests and human rights. In particular, focusing on

Cargill, one of the largest global traders of palm oil based

in the united States.

the Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign has prioritized

gathering on-the-ground intel from rainforest areas in

Indonesia that are most threatened by palm oil expansion,

amplifying those findings to media, supporters, and

corporate and political decision makers, and pressuring

companies like Cargill most responsible for that expansion.

this year, RAN has made significant progress in raising

awareness about the problem with palm oil by amplifying

cases like the tanjung Puting National Park as well as

cases like the fires in the tripa-region of Sumatra—

where massive fires were intentionally started by palm oil

companies in one of the most ecologically important forest habitats

for the nearly extinct Sumatran orangutan.

using our model of amplifying local cases, RAN publicly released

a tripa palm oil exposé in the spring and launched a social media

campaign calling for action from Indonesia’s president. our work

helped ensure that key permits were revoked from plantation

operators in tripa. But we didn’t stop there. We also collected 20,000

petitions calling on Cargill CEo greg Page to adopt safeguards that

would prevent Cargill from purchasing palm oil from places like tripa.

that was just one of the ways RAN brought the issue home for Cargill. last summer marked the beginning of the Cargill

Friends and Family Campaign, a robust print and online ad campaign created specifically to infiltrate the Wayzata

community in minnesota (home to many Cargill executives). through strategically placed ads in lifestyle magazines, online

and across billboards RAN worked to spread the message that Cargill has a historic opportunity to save mankind’s closest

kin, the orangutan, before it’s too late.

RAN also raised the issue of palm oil in national and international political spaces, including working with the

Environmental Protection Agency to ensure it excludes palm oil-based biofuels from the federal renewable fuels mandate

and helping to organize a week of action against the trans Pacific Partnership (tPP), among the largest “free trade”

agreements the world has ever seen that would smooth the way for palm oil to be traded even more easily.

When it comes to safeguarding our environment and forest dependent communities from a commodity like palm oil, we’ve

learned that we have to operate at every level, local, national and international. And that’s exactly what RAN is doing.

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In 2010, after lab tests revealed fiber from Indonesia’s rainforests in top children’s books, RAN launched a campaign

aimed to ensure that the country’s largest publishers pass leadership paper policies that protect forests, human rights

and the climate. By November 2010, eight publishers had committed to eliminating controversial Indonesian fiber from

their supply chains, including Scholastic, hachette, Pearson/Penguin group, Candlewick Press, houghton mifflin harcourt,

macmillan, Random house and Simon & Schuster. disney and harper Collins, however, were holdouts.

In may of 2011, RAN launched a campaign to get disney, the largest children’s book and magazine publisher in the world,

to become “rainforest safe.” on may 18, 2011, employees at the Walt disney Company’s headquarters in Burbank, CA

awoke to a surprise: two RAN activists costumed as mickey and minnie mouse blocking the company’s main entrance. the

risky tactic got the company’s attention. Within a week, several disney senior executives were in RAN’s offices to discuss

improving their paper purchasing practices.

And on october 11, 2012, after 17 months of intensive negotiations, disney announced its sweeping global commitment

to eliminate paper from its supply chain connected to the destruction of endangered forests and violations of human

rights. this is hands down one of the most far-reaching corporate rainforest policies RAN has secured to date, a

tremendous victory for rainforests.

After working closely with RAN, disney has added its significant global voice to the growing chorus of companies

demonstrating that there’s no need to sacrifice endangered forests in Indonesia, or anywhere else, to produce the paper

products we use every day.

disney’s commitment is monumental on a number of fronts. disney’s policy covers all disney products produced in any of

nearly 25,000 factories in more than 100 countries, including 10,000 in China. disney is the largest brand licensor in the

world and the largest operator of theme parks in the world, and the paper used for those arms of the media empire are

also covered by the policy.

In addition, the policy goes above and beyond purely environmental considerations to protect human rights and to

recognize the climate values of high carbon stock forests and landscapes. disney’s commitment will have a particularly

important impact in Indonesia, which has one of the highest rates of tropical deforestation in the world, due in large part

to pulp and paper production.

RAN’s publishing sector work is part of a long term

campaign to protect Indonesia’s rainforests from pulp

and paper giants, like Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) and Asia

Pacific Resources International holdings (APRIl), which are

single-handedly the most dangerous paper companies

for Indonesia’s rainforests. With its new policy, disney

joins a growing list of major brands cutting ties to these

notorious Indonesian rainforest destroyers.

In 2012, RAN also continued its pressure on APP by

targeting its Asian customers; in particular, Askul, japan’s

largest office supply company. Askul imports more volume

of copy paper from Indonesia than all u.S. companies

combined. If Askul demands that APP changes its business

practices, APP will have to listen.

the publishing sector work represents the best of RAN

campaigning. Combining hard data, public reports,

media pressure, creative nonviolent direct action and

online campaigning with strong corporate negotiations to

achieve real world results. It has been a tremendous year.

A year when we can say for certain that we successfully

transformed not just one company’s environmental

practices, but also those of an entire industry.

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The Disney policy is one of the most far-reaching corporate rainforest policies rAN has secured to date, a tremendous victory for rainforests.

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this year, with hurricane Sandy ravaging New york and

droughts decimating crops in the midwest, climate change

hit home like never before.

global warming has become perhaps the most

complicated and most pressing issue of our time. Warnings

from the scientific community are becoming louder as the

danger increases from the ongoing buildup of human-

related greenhouse gases—produced mainly by the

burning of fossil fuels and forests.

global emissions of carbon dioxide were at a record high

in 2011 and are likely to take a similar spike this year;

overall jumping 3 percent in 2011 and expected to jump

another 2.6 percent in 2012. there is scientific consensus

that we need to cut global greenhouse emissions

drastically before 2020 if we are to avoid catastrophic

climate change.

to protect our climate and public health, RAN is working to decrease our country’s reliance on coal and destabilize the

power of the coal industry while building demand for a clean energy economy. It is our assessment that climate change

is as much an economic issue as it is an environmental one, and that inspiring and pressuring the country’s top banks to

take a leadership role in transitioning our economy off of coal is crucial.

Currently, the u.S. banking sector is the number one underwriter of the coal industry. In recent years, banks have taken

steps to address financing of some of the most egregious aspects of the industry (working with RAN on mountaintop

removal coal mining and new coal-fired power plants). however, science tells us we need more from banks.

RAN is calling on the country’s top banks to work with us to accelerate the decline of coal-fired energy generation in the

u.S. and keep coal in the ground, and shift the balance of bank financing out of fossil fuel energy and into renewable

energy production.

the focus of RAN’s Energy and Finance Program is to move at least one major u.S. bank to restrict its financing of the

coal industry, creating an incentive for competing major u.S. banks to match or beat the policy. In addition, since no one

campaign can be a silver bullet solution to the climate crisis, RAN is also prioritizing building an ever-stronger grassroots

climate movement; recruiting, training and organizing activists committed to working on climate issues for the long term.

the technology exists today to begin a transition to a clean energy system—it is corporate and political will that we

critically need to build.

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coal is responsible for 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the U.S. is the world’s second largest coal producer.

coal-fired energy generation is also responsible for pollutants that damage cardiovascular and respiratory health and threaten healthy child development.

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In spring of 2011, RAN launched its most ambitious bank

campaign to date, calling on top financiers to quit coal

completely and redirect funding into renewable energy

projects—building on lessons learned from ten years of

finance-focused work. In june of that year, the campaign

began focusing publicly on Bank of America (BofA), which

Bloomberg data showed was and is the largest financier

of the coal industry, providing underwriting to all of the top

coal companies in the country.

Since june of 2011, our Bank of America campaign has

been exploding with momentum; ensuring that RAN’s

demands are front and center in the media, at BofA’s

headquarters, in the bank’s annual shareholder meeting

and at the negotiating table.

the campaign’s early focus was to build a grassroots base

in Charlotte, NC, BofA’s hometown, and to make sure that

pressure activities were happening all the time. In a year

when trust for banks was at an all time low, the campaign

hit a considerable chord with Charlotteans—spurring

participation from grandmothers who have been BofA

customers all their lives to students galvanized by the

occupy movement.

In may 2012, just before the bank’s annual shareholder

meeting, the campaign hit a crescendo. leveraging six

months of base building and research, RAN led the largest

week of action against Bank of America in history, literally.

the week began when RAN activists unfurled a 70-foot by

25-foot banner off the top of the Bank of America Stadium

in Charlotte, rebranding the iconic venue the “Bank of

Coal” Stadium for every media outlet in the region.

on the heels of the action, RAN and allies at the Sierra

Club and Banktrack released the third annual coal finance

report card, Dirty Money: U.S. Banks at the Bottom of the

Class, exposing the country’s “filthy five”—i.e. the top

five financiers of the u.S. coal industry. Bank of America

crowned the list. We also continued to show our power

in the streets of Charlotte, helping to lead a 1,000-plus

person protest in front of the shareholder meeting. to put

this in perspective, fewer than 30 people protested the

shareholder meeting the year before.

In addition to an outside presence, RAN ensured that frontline community members were able to speak face-to-face with

BofA’s CEo and board members inside the meeting. People faced with orange drinking water from mountaintop removal

coal mining and skyrocketing asthma rates from coal-fired power plants deserve a voice in the fight for clean energy, and

RAN helped ensure they got one.

Since the BofA shareholder meeting, RAN’s campaign has become the go-to for activists, ally organizations and reporters

interested in the intersection between banks, coal and climate change. RAN campaigners spent the summer supporting

activists across the country fighting coal extraction and expansion from montana to the Pacific Northwest, and the

campaign was featured in the New York Times’ coverage on Bank of America’s climate initiatives.

With an established—and growing—presence in Charlotte, RAN continues to organize actions to highlight the connection

between the city’s bad air quality and BofA’s coal financing, while also building a new front for the campaign in Boston,

home to the company’s CEo and several senior executives.

In addition to our organizing and creative public work, we have paired comprehensive research and negotiation efforts.

RAN’s recently released report, Bankrolling Climate Disruption: The Impacts of the Banking Sector’s Financed Emissions,

shows banks a way forward on accounting and reducing their climate footprint.

As NASA climate expert james hansen said: “Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.”

RAN’s campaign is working to ensure Bank of America gets on the right side of history, leading the country in transitioning

to a clean energy economy and away from coal.

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Protect-an-Acre Highlights:caura Futures

$3,500 to support conservation efforts within the Caura

River Basin in the Venezuelan Amazon where the felling

of wild palm fruits has become a widespread problem.

Innovative trainings and tools are helping safeguard

Indigenous knowledge, improve human health, and

promote good ecosystem stewardship.

Organizacion Shuar de Morona (OSHDeM)

$3,000 to support an inter-ethnic congress in the

northern Peruvian Amazon to discuss the threat posed

by talisman Energy and form a common position

to defend ancestral Indigenous territory. talisman

subsequently announced in September that it would

cease all oil exploration activities in the Peruvian

Amazon.

Lati Tana Adat Takaa

$2,000 to help the dayak Benuaq Indigenous People

of muara tae Kalimantan, Indonesia to protect their

customary rainforest land through the completion

of participatory mapping of village areas as part of

a process to secure a 10,000 acre territorial claim,

as well as advocating to stop ongoing and future

encroachment by palm oil and mining companies.

Other recipients include: Federation of the Achuar Nationality of Peru, WALHI Jambi, community Alliance on Pulp-Paper Advocacy, Sawit Watch, Fundación runa, Frente de conservacion ecologica de la comunidad Nativa Mushuk Llacta de chipaota

RAN believes that Indigenous peoples are the best stewards of the world’s rainforests and that frontline communities

organizing against the extraction and burning of dirty fossil fuels deserve the strongest support we can offer. that is why

RAN established the Protect-an-Acre (PAA) program to protect the world’s forests and the rights of their inhabitants who

often suffer disproportionate impacts to their health, livelihood and culture from extractive industry mega-projects and

the effects of global climate change.

An alternative to “buy-an-acre” programs, PAA provides small grants to community-based organizations, Indigenous

federations and small Ngos that are fighting to protect millions of acres of forest and keep millions of tons of Co2 in the

ground. PAA grants support organizations and communities working to regain

control of and sustainably manage their traditional territories through land

title initiatives, community education, development of sustainable economic

alternatives, and grassroots resistance to destructive industrial activities.

Since 1993, RAN’s Protect-an-Acre program has distributed more than one

million dollars in grants to more than 150 frontline communities, Indigenous-led

organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of

acres of traditional territory in forests around the world.

Based on the success of Protect-an-Acre, RAN launched the Climate Action

Fund (CAF) in 2009 as a way to support frontline communities and Indigenous

peoples directly challenging the fossil fuel industry. Initially started as a way of

taking responsibility for our own carbon footprint, CAF is now a fully-fledged

program for businesses and organizations looking for an alternative to

traditional, markets-based carbon offset programs.

CAF directs resources in the form of small grants to frontline activist groups

tackling the root causes of climate change: the extraction and combustion of

dirty fossil fuels such as coal and oil. Since the program’s inception, fourteen

grants to have been made to grassroots organizations across the globe.

climate Action Fund Highlights:Indigenous environmental Network

$2,500 to support the participation of several Indigenous leaders from Canada and the united States

in the massive two week White house tar Sands Action sit-ins calling on President obama to reject the

planned Keystone Xl pipeline.

radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival (r.A.M.P.S.)

$2,150 to support trainings for community members and activists in Appalachia for a mass nonviolent

direct action at the hobet mine in West Virginia, the largest mountaintop removal site in the united States.

Other recipients include: Pueblo Kichwa de rukullacta, campaña Amazonía por la vida, Black Mesa Indigenous Support

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Anonymous (3)harold C. AppletonArntz Family FoundationBmA Brunoni mottis & Associati Studio legale SAPeter and mimi BuckleyBullitt FoundationPolly and Randy Chernerjeffrey Clements and Nancy heseltongladys CofrinCornell douglas FoundationFiredoll FoundationCindy gantzBina and Brian garfieldgarfield Foundationmichele A. grennongrouponhidden leaf FoundationRoy A. hunt FoundationBruce and dasa KatzKatz Family FoundationBokara legendreAnna and Rob mcKaymcKay Family Foundation mental Insight FoundationNature’s ownthe Private Client Reservedavid Rosensteinthreshold FoundationWorld CentricRosa Venezia and Roy young

($5,000 - $9,999)

jonathan Altman and Colleen Kellythe jonathan & Kathleen Altman FoundationAngelica FoundationAnonymous (5)Arkay FoundationAvalon trustWilhelmina BandlerBanky-laRocque Foundationthe Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundationlaurie and Bill BenensonAlex BomsteinBarbara BossonCalifornia Community FoundationAndrew and Kim CastellanoSusan R. Clarkdonna deitchEarthshine Foundationdennis and Pam Polite Fiscojim Fournierglobal greengrants FundAmy goldman and Cary Fowlerjim and Suzanne gollinhighfield Foundationlynn Israel and Avi j. Beckerjewish Community Endowment Fundjewish Community Fed. of Clevelandthe lawrence Foundationmax and Anna levinson FoundationPamela and don lichtythe joshua mailman Foundationjosh mailman and monica WinsorBarbara meislinNetwork for goodPatagoniaScott B. Price

Rosemary PritzkerBrian RatnerRichard and Nancy Robbinsjozef Ruck and donna Itogaile RussWayne martinson and deb SawyerSteve SilbersteinSallie Smith & jim Butterworth Charitable FundSallie Smith and jim ButterworthSue thompsonjane Smith turner Foundationmichael ubell and Paula hawthorn

($1,000 - $4,999)

Alper Family Foundationdean Alper and tracy mcCullochSharmy and david AltshulerAmerican Express FoundationAnonymous (7)As you Sow Foundationtom Attar and ghazeleh AfsharStephen BadgerAllan BadinerK. BandellBank of hawaiiWilliam Barclay, IIIKathy Barry and Bob BurnettAlbert and Pamela BendichAlbert & Pamela Bendich Charitable trustgaynel E. Billupshelen and joseph Bouscarenmary BrockBruce and mimi BrownBruce Ford Brown Charitable trustmike and mary Brunemadeleine Buckingham

glenn Bucksbaumjudith BuechnerBulletproof Recording Company, Inc.margaret Bullitt-jonas and Robert A. jonasCannon Family FoundationAlison CarlsonAllen CarrollCaulkins Family FoundationSunrise CenterCharity gift Certificates.orgBob Chartoff and jenny Weyman-ChartoffBarbara and Sezar CiuRon and tova ClamanSusan ClarkEvan Coleliane Collinsthe Community Foundation of mendocino CountyWendell and ginger Covaltgreg CoverWilliam CowartElizabeth Coytemonica Craunharriett Crosbyjames K. CummingsCigy CyriacKate dahmenmildred dainRanae deSantisChristina l. desser and Kirk marckwaldd. l. Chris diehlAaron turkewitz and Anna diRienzoherman and Kathy dobbsSylvia drakegriswold drazEarth Share of Californialydia EdisonEnvironmental defense Fund

Bob Epstein and Amy Rothequilter.comjodie EvansEvan FalesSusan m. FalkCharles Farrelljosephine g. FarwellS.W. Friedman Foundationdavid and tirzah Friedmanlivingry FundElizabeth FurberPatricia geigerFred gellert Family Foundationmarshall goldbergjennifer goldmangoldman Environmental FoundationAnn golobAdelaide gomerElizabeth goodmanKen greensteinCatherine gundjordan and julie harrisBurt harris and Francine Fanali harrisCarey haskellmartha helmreich and Al grafSigrid hepp-daxWilliam W. hildreth Funddavid and Catherine mclaughlin hillsSarah hodgdonmaggie hooksdan houserKimberly hugheshull Family FoundationKristin hullmarion m. hunttamar hurwitzIce Nine Publishing Companydiane Israel and lindsey hansen-Sturm

t H e p A n t H e R C I R C l e - ( $ 2 5 , 0 0 0 a n d u p )

C A t A l y z I n g A m o v e m e n t - ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 t o $ 2 4 , 9 9 9 )

($100,000 and up)

Anonymous the john Aspinall Foundationthe Christensen FundClimateWorks Foundationthe grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environmentdavid & lucile Packard FoundationSchwab Fund for Charitable givingthe tilia Fund

($50,000 - $99,999)

Anonymous the Energy FoundationRobert Friedejmg Foundationohio Citizen Action Education FundWallace global FundWorking Assets

($25,000 - $49,999)

Anonymous (2)david and Chet BarclayCapital group CompaniesAndre CarothersFidelity Investments Charitable gift Fundurs hoelzlethe William Kistler Charitable FundAbdullah Waleed Al marzouq

mertz gilmore FoundationNew Place Fundoverbrook FoundationRainforest Foundationthe San Francisco Foundationdan Scalesthe Schaffner Family FoundationNancy g. Schaub

Silicon Valley Community FoundationFred and Alice Stanbacktrudie StylerSustainable Solutions Foundationtides Foundationthe Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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Wanda and Phillip johnjustgive.orgNorma Kafer and james gordonmike KappusKaren and Pat Kehoethe Key FoundationPaula Khoslamichael and Frances Kieschnickjeanie and murray KilgourBrian Kirkbride and jennifer KendlerBrian Kistlerherbert KurzBrian laCarrubbatashana landrayjean j. lanemarta jo lawrenceNessa and Steven learParker lindner and Ann zavitkovskyPamela lippeliving Springs FoundationRussell longSara lovellEugene luscheijohn lyddontimon and lori malloyEileen and owen mathieumazal Foundationjohn and Sandra mcgoniglemcKenzie River gathering Foundationdan mcNevinVera and Ken meislinjoseph mellicker and judith Scheuerleigh merinoffBarbara meyerjohn and Sandra mitchelSusan and james mooreNick and Sloane morganRobert Negrini

thomas j. NergerNew Resource Banklinda Nicholes and howard Steinjackie Northway-WallaceChris NothoSISARick Paine and lynnaea lumbardjulie and Will ParishPhillip and Renata mcElroy-PerlmanNuri B. Piercedrummond and liza PikePresidential life Insurance Companyt. Rowe Price Program for Charitable givingSherri and jeff PrincePrinceton Area Community FoundationBrian quennellRacoosin Family FoundationBonnie RaittRauch FoundationResource Renewal InstituteEleanore Richardsjohn Riordanjoanna mountain and heyward RobinsonSian Robinsonjohn Rodgersmichael Rosenmarsha RosenbaumPaul RuddSteven Rugglesjonah Sachsdiego Sanchez-Eliadiana Sansonguy and jeanine Sapersteinjohn Schaeffer and Nancy hensleytimothy Schaffnerharold SchesslerChris and Alice SemlerRosalind Seysses

Carol and Ken SibbrellVirginia P. Souzajon Spar and Karen Kulikowskijulia Squireshugo and monica Steensmajames StentFrances StevensonStephen Stevickjana Stewart-CezarStoller Family Charitable lead Annuity trustSun hill FoundationSungevitySuperior Nut Company, Inc.Swimmer Family FoundationBecky tarbotton and mateo Willifordlynda taylor and Robert haspelthomas Fundthe thompson Street Charitable Fundthree twins Ice CreamAmy and michael tiemannlorin and jill trodermanWyatt trolljon d. ungarAndrew ungerleider and gay dillinghamFrancesca Vietormary WahlNadine Weilmani WhiteWhite Cedar FundWinky Foundationthe Esther & morton Wohlgemuth Foundation, IncErik WohlgemuthEthan yakejody zaitlinPatricia and mel ziegler

Bequests

Carmen ArreolaRonald BaumgartenFredrika BernsteinElaine Burtonhelen CallbeckClarence Coemelisande Congdon-doyleKathleen CroweElthea gillArlene goffhilary jonesR. joy Stokesherb lafairjohn martingertrude meltonjoann SchwartzKatrina Smathershoward truebloodArthur Woodruff

In-Kind Gifts

A16Alma Rosa WineryAnonymous (2)Branden Barber and Sarah mcleodBioneersBi-Rite CreameryBullets 4 PeaceBungalow munchCavallo Point, the lodge at golden gateEvan Coledeborah CooperRachel diaz-BastinEatwell FarmEquinox

Evo-SpaShepard FaireyFirefly RestaurantForeign Cinemagaiamgather Restaurantglama-Rama Salongood Clean lovegreen living journalharbin hot Springsheath Ceramicstamar hurwitzjill hutchinsonjones & mitchell Planet Collectionlemelson Vineyardslittle Star PizzaAlfonso macielmoon guidesSara mossmanoccidental Arts & Ecology Centerdavid PagePatagoniaPost Ranch InnRancho PescaderoReal goodsdavid Rosensteingabrielle SanchezSPqRSunrise Centerteam luNAChixto-go Waretrek light geartres Agavesturley Wine Cellarsmichael ubell and Paula hawthornyoga Kulamel ziegler

You are the network that we refer to every time

we say rainforest Action Network.

We appreciate every gift received no matter the size.

r a i n f o r e s t

a c t i o n

n e t w o r k

b o a r d o f d i r e c t o r s

Allan Badiner  Program Chair

André Carothers Board Chair

Anna Hawken McKay Development Co-Chair

Anna Lappé

Catherine Caufield

James Gollin Board President

Jodie Evans Development Co-Chair

Martha DiSario

Michael Klein

Pamela Lippe

Randall Hayes Secretary / Founder

Scott B. Price Treasurer / Finance Chair

Stephen Stevick Governance Chair

h o n o r a r y b o a r d

Ali MacGraw

Bob Weir

Bonnie Raitt

Chris Noth

John Densmore

Woody Harrelson

Daryl Hannah

2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2 p a s t s t a f f m e m b e r s

Annie Sartor, David Taylor, Eos de Feminis, Ginger Cassady, Greg Plotkin, Hillary Lehr, Jenn Breckenridge, Martha Pettit,

Meghan Weimer, Susan Chrzanowski

S t a f f

Amanda Starbuck Energy & Finance Program Director

Arielle Gingold Development Associate

Ashley Schaeffer Rainforest Agribusiness Campaigner

Ben Collins Research and Policy Campaigner, Energy and Finance Program

Bill Barclay Policy and Research Director, Forests Program

Chelsea Matthews Forest Program Assistant

Hannah Roeyer Executive Assistant

Irina Pekareva Staff Accountant

Jake Conroy Online Production and Design Coordinator

Jeremy Nelson Interim Finance, HR and Operations Director

Jeri Howland Development Director

Kerul Dyer Communications Manager, Energy and Finance Program

Lafcadio Cortesi Asia Director, Forests Program

Laurel Sutherlin Communications Manager, Forests Program

Lauren Bourke Director of Foundations Giving

Lindsey Allen Forests Program Director

Melanie Gleason Online Organizer

Michael Atoria Interim Development Coordinator

Mike Gaworecki Online Campaigner

Nancy Johnson Office Manager

Nell Greenberg Communications Director

Rebecca Tarbotton Executive Director

Robin Averbeck Forest Campaigner

Scott Kocino Membership Manager

Scott Parkin Global Finance Senior Campaigner

Toben Dilworth Art Director

Todd Zimmer Energy and Finance Campaigner

Toyoyuki Kawakami RAN Japan Director

Tracy Solum Protect-an-Acre Program Manager

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Public Support and membership

major gifts / Family Foundations

Fundraising Events

grants

Interest

other Income

t o t a L s u P P o r t a n d r e v e n u e

e X P e n s e s

Program Services

Public Education

Supporting Services

management and general

Fundraising

t o t a L e X P e n s e s

Change in Net Assets

Net Assets at Beginning of year

Net Assets at End of year

$ 777,952

$ 1,274,499

$ 271,485

$ 1,525,235

$ 1,332

$ 82,798

$ 3,933,301

For a complete financial report by Regalia & Associates, contact RAN’s development office

$ 2,989,696

$ 24,508

$ 237,413

$ 751,512

$ 4,003,129

$ (69,828)

$ 1,517,101

$ 1,447,273

grants - 39 %

major gifts / Family

Foundations - 32 %

Public Support and

membership - 20 %

Fundraising Events - 7 %

Interest and other Income - 2 %

Program Services - 74 %

Fundraising - 19 %

management and general - 6 %

Public Education - 1 %

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